People of Praise, this Christian group to which Judge Amy Barrett belongs

Judge Amy Coney Barrett during her Senate hearing, October 12, 2020. -

She assured him, her philosophy can be summed up as follows: "A judge must apply the law as it has been written".

Monday, Amy Coney Barrett, chosen by Donald Trump to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court, began her grand oral before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

And her critics worry that the 48-year-old magistrate, who belonged to the Christian group People of Praise, is guided more by her religious convictions than by the Constitution.

Amy Coney Barrett: “Courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life.

The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches, elected by and accountable to the people. ”

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- ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 12, 2020

Who is People of Praise?

It is a Christian group founded in 1971 which has less than 2,000 members in the United States.

Most are Catholics, but there are also Pentecostal evangelists, with a doctrine centered on the Holy Spirit, glossolalia (prayer in unintelligible syllables) and prophecies.

People of Praise is present in about twenty American cities, mainly in Indiana.

Its members, who mostly live in semi-closed communities, must donate 5% of their income to the organization.

But the group is not considered a sect and has received the blessing of all the popes since Vatican II with the rise of "charismatic renewal".

Is Amy Coney Barrett a member?

Yes, but the judge or the group refused to confirm it.

In 2016, when she was on Donald Trump's shortlist - who finally chose Judge Kavanaugh - People of Praise removed any mention of Amy Coney Barrett from their site.

However, several photos of the judge can be found in the archives of the group's official magazine,

, notably in May 2006. And according to the

, Amy Coney Barrett was well listed in the organization chart.

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Is there anything to do with

No.

According to the organization chart, Amy Coney Barrett did have the title of "handmaid", assigned to female leaders.

People of Praise explains on its site that the term comes from the Gospel according to Saint Luke (chapter 1, verse 38): "And Mary said: here is the handmaid of the Lord".

He had been using it since the 1970s, long before Margaret Atwood's book

.

But because "the meaning of this word has changed in our recent culture, we no longer use it", specifies the group.

But even though its official doctrine presents men and women on an “equal footing”, most of the organization's leaders are male.

According to a 2009 internal document obtained by the

, the husband has a responsibility to “correct” his wife if she deviates from the right path.

What are Amy Coney Barrett's positions on abortion or gay marriage?

Mother of seven children, two of whom are adopted, Amy Coney Barrett considers that life begins "from conception" and is therefore fiercely opposed to abortion, as well as to marriage between two people of the same sex.

During her hearing on Monday, she assured that she was not guided by her personal convictions but "by the law and the Constitution".

Like her mentor, the late judge Antonin Scalia, she claims to be an “originalist”, the school of thought that the Constitution should be taken at face value as it was written in the 18th century.

In the legal battle over abortion, she could therefore, if upheld at the Supreme Court, vote to overturn the Roe v.

Wade, who legalized abortion across the country in 1973, leaving it to each state to decide.

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